[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

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    Jesse> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html

Without reading that I can assure you that not everybody has drunk the Java
Kool-Aid.  Just because Sun thought it was a fine term doesn't mean everyone
else will.  I've been a professional programmer for about 30 years, have
never touched Java, and the only times I've seen its effect in Python I have
been unimpressed (logging and unittest).

Google for "future".  The Java doc is aways down on the front page.  Now
Google for "futures". It's nowhere to be found.  As far as I can tell, all
but one hit on the first page are for my definition of "futures".  At the
bottom of the page the "searches related to _futures_" are all related to
trading futures or other derivatives except one.  That appears to be related
to the LPGA futures tour.  Java and its definition of the term is nowhere to
be found.

I suppose you can argue that it should be called "future".  I still contend
that the name is *not* intuitive, no matter how well known it happens to be
within the Java world.  Don't name it "futures" though.  That has nothing to
do with common definitions of the term.

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